NUMBER 5 AUTUMN / WINTER 2001

JOHN M. LEGGE looks at how the share market is
failing to facilitate productive investment and is contributing to
global instability.

L BRADFORD DELONG argues that Keynes still has the answers.

JAMES FRANKLIN believes the market can be made to work for the
Left.

CLIVE HAMILTON is optimistic that US multinationals will force
the Bush administration to sign an effective treaty to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.

RODNEY ALLEN argues that todayís non-indigenous Australians must
say sorry because they still benefit from aboriginal dispossession and
the current generation of Aborigines still suffers as a result of the
original injustice.

TESSA MORRIS-SUZUKI explains that false ideas of development
have buttressed the belief that aborigines are at the bottom of the
evolutionary scale, justifying their exclusion.

MARK OíCONNOR points out that while established morality is
vital to social stability and progress, it also attracts hypocrites and
those who see it as the socially required path to success.

RON STOTT argues that growth is a poor proxy for health and
happiness in rich countries.

CHARLES LIVINGSTONE shows that because governments now depend so
heavily on poker machines for revenue, they are only paying lip service
to public opinion which wants the pokiesí influence rolled back.

MARK DIESENDORF points out human survival is totally dependent
on the existing biosphere. Because we canít make it, we must conserve
it.

VICTORIA BRAMALL observes the class divide opening up as a
result of the two-tier education system.

LINDSAY CONNORS explains how Commonwealth indifference is
undermining public education.

BOB BIRRELL and IAN DOBSON say universities are not
producing enough IT specialists because they make more profits from
attracting full fee paying international students.

Chair of the UK all-party parliamentary group on population and
reproductive health,
CHRIS MCCAFFERTY, is amazed that Australia prevents AUSAID from
funding abortion training and emergency contraception, despite UN
figures showing one million unsafe abortions in developing countries
each year.

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